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I have a drawer with a similar problem. Last Christmas I decided everyone needed a "quilt" from me. I took orphan blocks, made them into potholders, then used up those small amounts of binding on them. I also made the "potholders" that fit with bowls in the microwave. I was surprised - they liked them all.

I have a large pretzel bin full of binding strips, I once did a jelly roll race quilt with strips from there but it was horrible as nothing matched. I've also taken them out and ironed flat again and cut into 2 1/2" squares, but that I have the 2 1/2" strip GO die, I might do that again and it should go really quick, just WHAT to do with those squares then.

It looks great, you could label them too, with how long they are. If you wrote at the very end of the strip it wouldn't get lost, but would be cut off when you joined the ends. It would be even quicker to find what you need.

I sew my leftover bindings together, sometimes by color group, sometimes grouped by brights or pastels. Depends on what I have. I love using them on scrappy quilts or kids quilts. Scrappy reds or blues look great on a R/W/B quilt and brights are always great on kids' quilts. Helps use them up.

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